386 LEGUMINOSH. [ Desmodium. 
villous; calyx yellowish silky villous, more than 2 lin. long, the 
teeth li ceolate, acuminate; corolla glabrous, 4 im. long; 
pods on a 8 lin. long densely pubescent peduncle, usually destitute 
of the calyx, oblong to elongate-oblong, more or less curved, 
densely appressed pubescent, 4-1-jointed, the articles reniform- 
oblong, } in. long, compressed with rounded borders, each joint 
: containing a compressed, reniform-oblong, glossy black seed. | 
Has.—Not ee in the sandy beach jungles along the coasts of the 
Andamans and probably all along the Burmese coasts, reappearing again in 
Ava, on the limestone hills of Segain.—SS. = Aren. Ca. (?) 
7. D. cephalotes, Wall; H.f. Ind. Fi. ii. 162; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. 87 t. 12, £. 4.—A large shrub, often growing out into a small 
tree with a short trunk about 2-3 ft. in girth, all softer parts 
appressed silk-hairy ; stipules scarious, linear-lanceolate, subulate, 
acuminate, + to 4 in. long; stipulets setaceous-filiform, long; 
leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, on a channelled petiole } to an in. long; 
leaflets obovate to elliptically lanceolate, on a line long pubescent 
or almost glabrous petiolule, shortly acuminate to acute, 1} to 23 
lin. long, chartaceous, glabrous above, beneath, especially along the 
straight parallel nerves, appressed silvery silk-hairy, or rarely almost 
glabrous ; flowers small, white, on short, slender, curved, silk-hairy 
pedicels, forming an almost sessile or short-peduncled, more or less 
silky pubescent umbel in the axils of the leaves and shorter than the 
petioles ; bracts and bractlets linear, subulate-acuminate, longer than 
the pedicels; calyx silky pubescent, nearly 3 lin. long, the lobes 
linear-subulate, the lowermost much elongated; corolla glabrous, 
about 4 in. long; pods linear-oblong, flat, more or less curved, 
more or less silky pubescent, rarely almost glabrous, 4 to 3 in. long; 
2-5- rarely by abortion 1-jointed, the articles about 2 lin. long an 
broad or somewhat longer, rounded on one side, each containing 
a single brown compr: elliptically reniform : 
Has.—Common all over Ava and Chittagong down to Pegu and Arracan, In 
the mixed forests, especially the lower ones, also entering the savannahs.—Fl. 
close of R.S.; Fr. C.S—1l1—SS.—= ow. SiS. All. 
-; flowers small, purple (?), on slender about 3 lin. 
; pubescent pedicels, forming short, usually paired, tawny-pubes- 
emes in the axils of the leaves and often passing into 
